Step into a weekend of adventure, imagination, and fandom at CoastCon 48—Mississippi’s longest-running and largest science fiction, fantasy, and gaming convention!
Hey Now!! We Can't Celebrate without YOU!!!! Join the Montgomery Book Fest as a Vendor, Writer, or Reader!! This year is a CELEBRATION You don't want to miss!!
Calling all authors and vendors!
We’re now accepting applications for the 2026 Impact Book Festival happening April 18 • 10AM–3PM at the Fultondale Event Center!
Whether you write, publish, or sell literary goods, we want you to be part of this community celebration of words and creativity.
Apply now: https://www.impactartscouncil.org/impact-book-festival
Write to Publish: Where Calling Meets Craft
Enclave Publishing's fantastic Black Friday Sale.
Signed hardcovers-limited, hardcovers, paperbacks, even a special preorder deal.
Sale starts NOW and lasts through December 7th.
Vote on your favorite cover once per day at https://www.sunsetvalleycreations.com/vote!
If you have a book inside of you, and the dream to publish that book, and you don’t know where to begin, the Florida Christian Writers Conference is the perfect place to lean in and learn.
Meet the author at Logos in Nashville
Get ready for the ultimate bookworm experience at the TBR Con–a gathering of lit lovers and authors.
September 13th | 10a-7p
September 14th | 10a-5p
Write To Publish is a fantastic environment to connect, learn, and move forward as an author.
Water’s Break is a 2025 Selah finalist!
Winners to be announced at the BRMCWC on Thursday, May 29.
The Realm Makers Bookstore is returning to Pigeon Forge, TN, May 8-10!
Join us at the Teach Them Diligently Conference in the LeConte Center. I had such a blast last year and am looking forward to sharing Nica’s story with the homeschool community again.
Here is the reel from 2025:
And here are some highlights from 2024:
On MARCH 29th, Sci-Fi & Fantasy authors will storm the halls of Valhalla!
This will be a free "Meet the Authors" event with door prizes and book signings! All this bookish love will be brewing at the Valhalla Board Game Café on Saturday, March 29th. Valhalla has fun, Norse-inspired food, drink, and vibes. If you're local, I hope you'll hang out with us. I'll have more details in next month's newsletter.
Turning a New Page Book Festival promises to be a reader-centric event, celebrating inspirational fiction and nonfiction as well as "clean reads."
WHERE FAITH & FANDOM COME TOGETHER!
Changing the world… one writer at a time
Check out the photos here!!
The Realm Makers Bookstore is coming to Pigeon Forge, TN May 2nd - 4th!!!
WRITERS CHAT - My Writer’s Journey
Join us live on Writers Chat Tuesday 4/23 at 11 AM ET (9MT, 10CT)
Word Weavers International Open Mic Night is a monthly event that brings readers and writers together to enjoy published works, allows authors to promote themselves, and demonstrates how the Word Weavers process is valuable to writing and publication.
First Con in the books!
I had a BLAST at CoastCon! Met tons of people, saw awesome cosplayers, and sold some books! I even got brave and did a Nica Cosplay. Let me tell you, it's not easy getting green!
Michael and his amazing daughter, Brittenney, were next to me. I enjoyed chatting with and learning from them.
New friend Barbara was the first person to purchase Water’s Break at CoastCon.
It really wasn’t fair having Korean & Japanese snacks in the space right across from me. What’s a girl to do? Buy the shrimp ships and Asian cakes, or course! I also came home with a good assortment of ramen.
like the shirt says.
It was so cool to meet Les Johnson, NASA scientist and Sci-Fi author extraordinaire.
Les allowed me to hold a piece of solar sail! It was amazingly lightweight! Look at me, holding space stuff in my hands!!! Total geek-out moment!!!
I had so much fun talking to new people about Water’s Break. Thanks, Gino, for stopping by.
Getting her hair color! Lava Locks!
NICA appropriate clothing. I sacrificed one of my son’s dress shirts for this, but they hadn’t bothered to claim it since the aughts.
Don’t you think the design looks a bit seaweedy?
All the green makeup!
It’s not easy going green, but with some help from ULTA, I think I pulled it off!
It was great fun to meet Capt. Garrett Spears in person!! HAHA. Craig and I enjoyed watching Jake in The Outpost, so this was a treat.
He was a super-nice guy!
I have connected with KRISTI in Ukraine, multiple times in Birmingham,1 and at the Natchez Trace terminus in Louisiana! She’s come to Dima’s soccer games and Vicka’s races and this time she drove two hours to meet me in Biloxi. <3
How does one repay a friend for driving two hours to hang out with you? You introduce them to raw oysters and all kinds of seafood!!
(Kristi liked the oysters!)
I really wished Craig had been able to come. He would have loved to check out the WarHammer displays.
Teresa is a new local author friend, and has been helping me navigate book events like CoastCon. Thanks for inviting me, Teresa!!
I just finished Teresa’s recent release, PROPHECY’S DAUGHTER , which is a cool blend of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Now I need to read the first book in this series, ALDEBAR HOME.
A different green-skinned buddy.
That took a bit. I ended up going out to dinner Saturday night in Nica makeup and got more than a few odd looks!!!
